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PHOENIX — Channeling his inner Pete Carroll, Bill Belichick showed up relaxed in jeans and flip flops. Channeling his inner One Direction, Tom Brady showed up with hair somewhere between boy band and bed head. And Marshawn Lynch? "I'm just here so I won't get fined." There is an art to saying nothing before the Big Game and in one hour, four minutes and 51 seconds Tuesday, three key components in Super Bowl XLIX were content to push every conceivable boundary of the aforementioned art. Look, covering Super Bowl Media Day at US Airways Center was better than being back home in Eastern Connecticut shoveling two feet of snow — but not by much. The chain...

PHOENIX — Marshawn Lynch smiled politely, waved at the crowd and answered every question the same."I'm here so I don't get fined," the Seattle Seahawks' star running back constantly repeated for five minutes before leaving the...

It doesn't matter if we want Deflategate. It doesn't matter if we don't want Deflategate.
We NEED Deflategate.
Whether the Patriots purposely took some of the air out of their footballs Sunday as they were taking all of the air out of the Indianapolis...

New York Jets wide receiver Percy Harvin admitted Monday in his first comments since being traded Saturday that he was frustrated in Seattle and now wants to put the past behind him.
"It definitely was," Harvin said after his first practice...

Taysom Hill, the outstanding BYU quarterback, is dealing with even a worse injury than originally believed. He not only broke his left leg Saturday night against Utah State, but tore every major ligament in his knee. Anyone who saw UConn's opener...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday voted unanimously to eliminate a decades-old rule that has prohibited pay-TV providers from airing some home sports games, such as NFL football, if tickets to those games did not sell...

Yawin Smallwood gets it but then again he doesn't.The knock on the former UConn linebacker's game is his ability — or inability some say — to cover well in the passing game, which is trending toward the new normal in the NFL. Linebackers these days have...

Yawin Smallwood, the former UConn linebacker and NFL hopeful, is well aware of the knocks on his game."Yeah, a lot of people say I don't come downhill or have violent hands, but I really don't feel like that's the case," Smallwood said.Well,...

ESPN and NFL Network may choose to showcase Chicago more during the NFL draft Friday and especially Saturday, when the concluding rounds will be conducted outside in Grant Park.
But Thursday, the coverage remained focused on the business at hand:...

Breshad Perriman is Baltimore-bound.
The UCF receiver broke his own news on twitter that the Ravens made him the No. 26 pick a few minutes ahead of 2015 NFL Draft TV broadcast on ESPN and the NFL Network late Thursday evening.
Perriman, who will...

The positioning of the picks couldn't be better. Assuming it stays this way, with the Jets selecting sixth and the Bears seventh in the first round, viewers will see the difference quickly in this year's NFL draft.
"It's going to be strange to be at...

Chris Berman has told the story so many times it now feels like he was there for the meeting.
Back in 1979, Chet Simmons, president of a new network called ESPN, made a proposal to Pete Rozelle to air live coverage of the NFL draft. While Rozelle might...

The NFL draft is still more than 10 weeks away. But with the league’s scouting combine beginning this week in Indianapolis, the pre-draft chatter will intensify with a whirlwind of analysis soon to encircle a lengthy list of prospects.
The Chicago...

Warren Sapp, a Pro Football Hall of Famer and network analyst, was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute and assault at a downtown Phoenix hotel just hours after Super Bowl XLIX, a law enforcement official told the Los Angeles Times....

Warren Sapp was arrested and charged with soliciting a prostitute at a Phoenix hotel following the Super Bowl.
Just wondering if the prostitute should have been arrested, too, for soliciting an intolerable, incessant, interminable jerk?
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Hall of Fame defensive tackle Warren Sapp was arrested and charged with soliciting a prostitute and assault in Phoenix following the Super Bowl, according to TMZSports.com and other media outlets.
Sapp, who was a star at Apopka High before playing for...

Observations of the stuff that aired in between commercials Sunday:
* The big number for NBC is 111.5 million: The number of viewers who watched last year's Super Bowl, the largest TV audience of all time. So the network wasn't upset that a huge...

I watched the first Super Bowl in 1967, and it was one of the great TV viewing experiences of my life.The resonant, rock-steady call of play-by-play announcer Ray Scott and the 35-10 throttling that my beloved Green Bay Packers gave the brash Kansas...

Terrell Suggs famously refuses to say New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s name, but now, he might have to. The Ravens outside linebacker has been appearing on the NFL Network as part of its Super Bowl coverage, and Brady is basically the star...

Marshawn Lynch was direct and honest when speaking during Super Bowl XLIX media day Tuesday in Phoenix.
"Hey, I'm just here so I don't get fined," the Seattle Seahawks star running back said as he started his time at the podium, "so...